The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

order to stop at once the piling and filling il
Of the lake front. This order is directed
against the Illinois Central Railway Com
pany, which has acquired in this way land
worth millions Of dollars, and the title Il
which is now being contested in the courts
THE Minneapolis Terminal Railway Com
pany, with capital Of q, O0O, GOO, has filed
articles Of incorporation.
OMAHA. Neb., has been designated as Z
reserve city by the Comptroller Of the Cur
rency.
DIR. N. r. ELLIOTT, Of Aberdeen, Oak,
has been arrested, charged with having
caused the death of child and its mother
by criminal malpractice.
IT was reported at San Francisco that
the transcontinental roads would boycott
the American connections Of the Canadian
Pacific road.
IT is safl that 4. W. Swan, the Wyoming
cattle king, who recently failed, was made
the victim of a gigantic confidence game
some time previously whereby he lost $780,
600 at one sweep.
The distillery at Des Moines, Iowa, has
been served with q notice that under the
ruling of the Supreme Court it must close
up. About 81, 900 gallons of beer in watts
have been seized at Mates brewery, at the
same place, which will be destroyed on ad.
vice of the Attorney General.
| CHARLES L. MAGINNIs has been appointed
Receiver of Public Moneys at Duluth,
Mimi.
THE grain rate cut by the Chicago & At
lantic road to Ohio points has been rracti-
cally restored.
NEARLY an entire block, mainly occupied
by a slaughter house, in South San Francis
CO was destroyed by fire the other night ;
loss, $75, 900.
FOREST fires have started again in the
Michigan peninsula.
| THE recent lockout Of the brick manufac-
| turers of Chicago threw 5000 men out of
work.
| The first business meeting of the thirty
| third annual session of the Western Uni
tartan Conference was held in Chicago on
| the 18th. Hon. ID. L. Shorey occupied the
chair and an address of welcome was de-
livered by Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, which
| was responded to by President Shorey.
Rev. J. Efinger, secretary, submitted a
| voluminous report.
THE west bound passenger train on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad ran
| into a bunch of cattle twenty miles east of
Denver, Col, on the 18th, ditching the en-
CINE, mail and express cars. Of three
| tramps stealing a ride one named Moore
was killed and the other two slightly in
jured.
LIGHTNING recently killed one man and
| severely injured two others who were at
work on farm near Cairo, Ill.
THE reported Minnesota earthquake shock
was found to have been terrific explosion
of nitro-glycerine at Spirit lake, eight miles
from Duluth. The nitro glycerine amounted
to about four tons. Two men were thought
to have been killed.
MRS. JOHN BOYD, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
has obtained a judgment of $500 against
Rockford salOOnkeeper for selling whisky
to her husband, causing him to commit
murder.
THE coopers Of Minneapolis have organ
lied an association which agrees to pay
journeymen fifteen cents per barrel and
furnish barrels to the mills at forty cents
each.
The strikers at the cement factory at
Akron, O., have returned to work at an ad-
vance IN wages.
GRACE LESLIE, leading lady of the Kate
Castleton troupe, was killed in railroad
accident recently at Salida, Col.
FULLY 1900 people were fighting forest
fires on the Michigan peninsula on the 18th,
and a repetition of the awful Portage fire
was feared. Fire appeared to be raging
everywhere.
THE foreclosure sale of the Nickel Plate
road at Cleveland, o., on the 18th was a
very formal affair. The road was purchased
on the first bid for ZIG, OOO, 600 by Frederick
o. P. Olcott, chairman of the Nickel Plate
purchasing committee, for the bondholders
committee, which is made up of Mr.. Olcott,
William K. Vanderbilt, James A. Roosevelt
and j. s. Kennedy.
IT is reported in Indianapolis that eleven
indictments for election frauds have been
returned by the United States grand jury.
HENRY r. PENDERY, formerly of Leaven-
worth, Kan, but now of Colorado, has been
appointed register of the land Office at Lead
vile, Col.
THE General Assembly of the Presbyter-
ian Church, South, was in session ut st.
Louis On the 18th and 10th. The Presbyter-
ian Church, North, was in session at Oma-
ha, Neb., on the same days, with large at
tendance.
LAKE LINDEN, or Torch Lake, Mich, was
devastated by fire on the night of the GOTH
The loss was put as high as $1,000, 900, with
$50. 600 insurance. The destruction of the
town was thought to be due to the forest
fires which had prevailed in the vicinity for
some time previously.